It starts and ends with us | Laila Macharia | TEDxNairobi

I was 19 years old, you know, just the other day, graduate student at the University of Oregon. From time to time, we'd ride the bus into the neighboring town of Eugene, which at that time was not very culturally diverse. One day I'm on the bus and sitting across from me on the other side of the aisle was a little blonde girl, four or five years old with her mom.When she saw me, her eyes opened wide like she'd seen a unicorn and she started making her way towards me. Her mother's desperately trying to distr ...